Randomness

We could not have asked 

for a more beautiful weekend!

Lots of random things got done around here

well, some things got started...

I started taking down the summer decorations.

I have put it off as long as I could..

I could not bring myself to put away 

the cool blues and the seashells

but it is October after all 

and if I intend to enjoy the 

warm fall colors

before Christmas is upon us,

I have to do it soon!

So I gathered up the summerness

and piled it on the dining room table!

One step at a time, ok?

I want to point out that the siding crew

got the entire back of the house done

Friday it was so windy they had to quit

and did not start  on the side,

but today they were back at it,

and finished the north side completely!

I learned how to use the 

chop saw last week.

Actually it's the compound mitre saw,

but the construction guys call it

the chop saw.

Im on the team now, so I can talk like they do, right?

Here's what I did with the 

chop saw.

I chopped.

You will have to wait a couple of months

to find out what will become of this little pile

of treasures!

Here is the saw.

Jim hauled several of his storage shelves over

and is almost giddy

about having a place to store his tools

and equipment!

I managed to get some glaze on the drawers 

and sand some of the edges down.

You can't really tell what the color looks like,

but neither can I...the light down there is

terrible.

I think I may have to redo some of them!

The dresser in the background is still

plain white, so you can kind of see the difference.

Here is the egress window.

Remember on the last house

how plain and boring they were?

I dreamed of painting a mural on each one,

but alas, it never came to be.

This time, I am trying to just

create a pretty looking wall 

with some stain.

I used three different colors

and it turned out

kind of like a 

terra cotta looking wall.

I'm not sure if this is finished,

but it sure looks better than it did before I started!

I can kind of visualize some old pots and maybe a ladder

or some kind of iron work in there..

what do you think??

In between all that,

I got 5 more bags of topsoil

dumped into my two flowerbeds

and worked that in.

And then worked in a tub full of compost

material.

They are lookin good!

Today Dad and I spent the entire day

building  the main pillar on the front porch

and getting some trim boards up.

It was so cold this morning,

I was forced to put socks and shoes on 

for the first time in months! 

I wore the hiking boots 

that I worked in last winter

and my feet and legs are killing me!

Good bye dear flip flops!

I will miss you!!!